Isaiæ 24
1 [Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram: et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem ejus, et disperget habitatores ejus.
Behold, YHWH is emptying the earth, And is making it desolate, And has overturned [it on] its face, And has scattered its inhabitants.
2 Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos; et sicut servus, sic dominus ejus; sicut ancilla, sic domina ejus; sicut emens, sic ille qui vendit; sicut fœnerator, sic is qui mutuum accipit; sicut qui repetit, sic qui debet.
And it has been—as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maidservant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting [it] on himself.
3 Dissipatione dissipabitur terra, et direptione prædabitur; Dominus enim locutus est verbum hoc.
The earth is utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled, For YHWH has spoken this word:
4 Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est; defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terræ.
The earth has mourned, faded, The world has languished, faded, They have languished—the high place of the people of the earth.
5 Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis, quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt jus, dissipaverunt fœdus sempiternum.
And the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a perpetual covenant.
6 Propter hoc maledictio vorabit terram, et peccabunt habitatores ejus; ideoque insanient cultores ejus, et relinquentur homines pauci.
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, And the inhabitants in it become desolate, Therefore inhabitants of the earth have been consumed, And few men have been left.
7 Luxit vindemia, infirmata est vitis, ingemuerunt omnes qui lætabantur corde;
The new wine has mourned, the vine languished, All the joyful of heart have sighed.
8 cessavit gaudium tympanorum, quievit sonitus lætantium, conticuit dulcedo citharæ.
The joy of tambourines has ceased, The noise of exulting ones has ceased, The joy of a harp has ceased.
9 Cum cantico non bibent vinum; amara erit potio bibentibus illam.
They do not drink wine with a song, Strong drink is bitter to those drinking it.
10 Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus, nullo introëunte.
It was broken down—a city of emptiness, Every house has been shut from [its] entrance.
11 Clamor erit super vino in plateis, deserta est omnia lætitia, translatum est gaudium terræ.
In out-places [is] a cry over the wine, All joy has been darkened, The joy of the land has been removed.
12 Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas.
Desolation [is] left in the city, And the gate is struck [with] ruin.
13 Quia hæc erunt in medio terræ in medio populorum, quomodo si paucæ olivæ quæ remanserunt excutiantur ex olea et racemi, cum fuerit finita vindemia.]
When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the surrounding of the olive, As gleanings when harvest has been finished,
14 [Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt: cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.
They lift up their voice, They sing of the excellence of YHWH, They have cried aloud from the sea.
15 Propter hoc in doctrinis glorificate Dominum; in insulis maris nomen Domini Dei Israël.
Therefore honor YHWH in prosperity, In islands of the sea, the Name of YHWH, God of Israel.
16 A finibus terræ laudes audivimus, gloriam Justi. Et dixi: Secretum meum mihi, secretum meum mihi. Væ mihi! prævaricantes prævaricati sunt, et prævaricatione transgressorum prævaricati sunt.
From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, “Leanness [is] to me, Leanness [is] to me, woe [is] to me.” Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Indeed, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.
17 Formido, et fovea, et laqueus super te, qui habitator es terræ.
Fear, and a snare, and a trap, [Are] on you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 Et erit: qui fugerit a voce formidinis cadet in foveam; et qui se explicaverit de fovea tenebitur laqueo; quia cataractæ de excelsis apertæ sunt et concutientur fundamenta terræ.
And it has come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear falls into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the trap, For windows have been opened on high, And foundations of the earth are shaken.
19 Confractione confringetur terra, contritione conteretur terra, commotione commovebitur terra;
The earth has been utterly broken down, The earth has been utterly broken, The earth has been utterly moved.
20 agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius, et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis; et gravabit eam iniquitas sua, et corruet, et non adjiciet ut resurgat.
The earth staggers greatly as a drunkard, And it has been moved as a lodge, And its transgression has been heavy on it, And it has fallen, and does not add to rise.
21 Et erit: in die illa visitabit Dominus super militiam cæli in excelso, et super reges terræ qui sunt super terram;
And it has come to pass in that day, YHWH lays a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the earth on the earth.
22 et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere, et post multos dies visitabuntur.
And they have been gathered—A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And they have been shut up in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
23 Et erubescet luna, et confundetur sol, cum regnaverit Dominus exercituum in monte Sion et in Jerusalem et in conspectu senum suorum fuerit glorificatus.]
And the moon has been confounded, And the sun has been ashamed, For YHWH of Hosts has reigned In Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And before His elderly—glory!
